Are you ready to unleash your entrepreneurial spirit and be a part of an exciting start-up revolution as the main driver for its growth and success? About us Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum. We are strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking, connecting more than 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries. Retail Insights is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one. The Opportunity. As a Venture Development Manager, you will run, grow and manage all aspects of Retail Insights. You will be responsible for building and leading a world-class team, ensuring the successful execution of the conference and strategy of the brand. You’ll want this job if you possess strong leadership skills, excellent communication abilities, highly ambitious, forward-thinking and driven to inspire and lead a team. You are someone who is thrilled to work in a fast-paced environment and wants to scale the company rapidly. Responsibilities : Recruit, build and develop a high-performing team. Build an ecosystem and deliver outstanding products. Set clear expectations, establish goals, and provide ongoing detailed feedback and performance evaluations. Execute the strategy at a rapid pace. Develop the company’s brand as the go-to place for inspiration, knowledge and networking. Oversee planning, execution, and completion of conferences within the designated timelines and budget constraints. Assign tasks to team members in each department, monitor progress, and ensure project objectives are achieved. Identify opportunities to expand business with existing clients and collaborate with business development teams for new client acquisition. What we offer you You’ll be workin
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Role Overview At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. We are looking for AI-native builders and operators who use AI as a core part of how they think, learn, and execute
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Basic Qualifications 8+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, startup programs, venture, GTM, cloud, AI/ML, or related fields; Strong understanding of the modern AI stack, including LLM-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, model serving, and data infrastructure
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Snowflake enables organizations to collaborate, build AI-powered data apps, and unlock data insights—all within a secure and scalable AI Data Cloud.
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